HDD unit shipments dipped below 115 million in the fourth calendar quarter of 2015 due to weak PC sales and impact of SSD incursion in notebook computers. For the year, HDD sales were down 16.9% to 469 million units according to TRENDFOCUS’ CQ4 HDD Market Update. However, exabytes shipped in HDDs continues to expand to […]

In early May, TRENDFOCUS released various quarterly reports, which reviews the HDD and SSD industries’ performance in CQ1 ’15, and what effect it has on the updated quarterly forecast. Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) saw a sharp decline to 125M units sold, mainly due to the softness in the notebook PC market. Performance Enterprise Hard Disk […]